365 Wonderful Days of Marriage

It's hard to believe that on this day one year ago, I married the most awesome person in the world.  This has no doubt been one of the most eventful 365 days of my life and every day since we got married has been an adventure. We're so lucky because people often say that the first year of marriage can be the hardest.  And we definitely had our challenges with career changes, a traveling husband, and having our dog in urgent care multiple times.  But overall, it was an absolutely amazing 1st year of marriage.

A friend of mine once talked about a tradition her and her husband started where they alternate planning anniversary celebrations each year.  So Mike and I thought that would be a great way to have little surprises for each other every year of our marriage and keep us both on our toes.  Since I had quite a large task of planning last year's wedding festivities, I decided to take the even year anniversaries, and Mike will be in charge of planning the odd year anniversaries.

As part of our wedding ceremony our priest had us exchange red roses (since we couldn't light a candle together due to wind, and I was scared of having wine in our ceremony for fear of spilling on my Pnina!!!), so I was greeted this morning with 2 dozen beautiful red roses, right on cue.  The 1st Anniversary traditional gift is paper, so Mike and I both stuck with the theme and bought each other paper based gifts.  What's even more remarkable is that we both bought each other gifts with a sailor theme!!!  Mike planned a wonderful dinner for us a A Voce on Madison. We dined on some delicious Italian food that included cannoli for dessert....of course. 

Both of our parents were also very sweet and sent us anniversary gifts as well.  My mom had this wonderful  highlight reel made for us from our wedding, and I could watch it 1,000 times and I still get a little misty eyed at how beautiful the day was and how much love there was on April 30th last year. Check it out here if you want to see it!!!!  Mike's parents also sent us a very sweet traditional 1st Anniversary gift of paper as well.  And I can't lie....it IS kind of nice when everyone you know remembers your anniversary because they are reminded our nuptials were the same weekend (NOT DAY!!!) as the Royal Wedding (or the death of Osama Bin Laden...USA! USA! USA!)

We've grown so much together as a little family and have learned every day how to be a better spouse to each other and I love my husband a little bit more each day. My life is a happier place with him in it.  And my heart does little cartwheels when I think about what God has in store for our family and the adventures we have ahead of us in the years to come.  I feel so grateful that we found each other and so lucky that Mike Mobley has brought me so much joy.  Here's to a great year of marriage and many more with the man of my dreams!